Gen. David Petreus - while serving as one of the most targeted men in the world by foreign intelligence agencies, sent sexually explicit messages to his mistresses from a free GMail account created under his real name

Gen. John Allen - had cyber-sex with one of the CIA directors mistresses over a monitored Department of Defense computer network; says it's been misinterpreted - the week he spent as Supreme Commander of Europe has caused him to take on a more flirtatious style of writing, like Europeans

Wait, sorry, what? The F.B.I. can access your account, without a warrant or even notifying you, on the sole basis of suspicion that you might be e-bullying an F.B.I. agent’s pal? Is this an official subsection of the Patriot Act? The friends-only harassment follow-up exemption?

Somehow, against all odds, today’s Shocking Petraeus Affair Revelations are even stranger than yesterday’s, which, we hasten to remind you, included an F.B.I. agent and the cyberstalking case he just couldn’t quit, Gmail accounts, and sexts that brought down the director of a government agency.

It’d be amazing if these shirtless pictures somehow went all the way to the top—like, if Obama’s re-election campaign were inexplicably responsible for trying to destroy evidence of sext-based malfeasance and topless selfies. Every generation gets the Watergate it deserves.

Phatscotty wrote:Don't tell me the head of the CIA can't keep his mistresses secret.

Petreus got hung out to dry.

Come on, you can barely keep track of which dude you're crushing on from week to week. Sometimes it's Joseph Gordon Levitt, other weeks it's Leo diCaprio. Imagine if you had to run the CIA on top of that.

Phatscotty wrote:Don't tell me the head of the CIA can't keep his mistresses secret.

Petreus got hung out to dry.

maybe that's why he got fired.

meh. Everyone has mistresses...even Bush and Obama. In fact, Bush liked to get head from a prostitute names Jeff Gannon, and Karl Rove would watch from the closet that was left open just a crack. Obama uses his secret service to pull it off.

I bet they have something else on him, and the affair is just the front story.

Phatscotty wrote:Don't tell me the head of the CIA can't keep his mistresses secret.

Petreus got hung out to dry.

Come on, you can barely keep track of which dude you're crushing on from week to week. Sometimes it's Joseph Gordon Levitt, other weeks it's Leo diCaprio Christian Bale. Imagine if you had to run the CIA on top of that.

Phatscotty wrote:Don't tell me the head of the CIA can't keep his mistresses secret.

Petreus got hung out to dry.

maybe that's why he got fired.

meh. Everyone has mistresses...even Bush and Obama. In fact, Bush liked to get head from a prostitute names Jeff Gannon, and Karl Rove would watch from the closet that was left open just a crack. Obama uses his secret service to pull it off.

I bet they have something else on him, and the affair is just the front story.

Not because he has one but because he couldn't keep it secret. As you say head of the CIA should be sneakier than that.

Phatscotty wrote:Don't tell me the head of the CIA can't keep his mistresses secret.

Petreus got hung out to dry.

maybe that's why he got fired.

meh. Everyone has mistresses...even Bush and Obama. In fact, Bush liked to get head from a prostitute names Jeff Gannon, and Karl Rove would watch from the closet that was left open just a crack. Obama uses his secret service to pull it off.

I bet they have something else on him, and the affair is just the front story.

Not because he has one but because he couldn't keep it secret. As you say head of the CIA should be sneakier than that.

Not because he couldn't keep it a secret, but because he's taking the bullet for Benghazi?

Maybe Patreus has been getting blackmailed for years by the guy on the other end of Obama's encrypted blackberry...

Ignore that having an affair with a married man who happens to be a four star general and head of the CIA is stupid, but this woman became jealous and protective of her man... not because he had a wife, but because he potentially had another mistress. Paul Broadwell gets my vote for dumbest.